>>>>Equally promising is the potential of so-called bucky tubes ­ elongated
pipelines of hexagonal carbon faces capped at both ends with the requisite 12
pentagons needed for curvature. Physicist Roger Bacon first observed these
unusual 'carbon whiskers' in the 1960s, but it was Sumio Iijima in Japan who
first appreciated their significance Carbon nanotubes are predicted to be
stronger than any known material (even diamond), with potential applications
in numerous nanoscale architectures such as in microelectronics.<<<<<